Grin & Tonic School
Season 2007
| SENIORS ... life's but a WALKING SHADOW, a poor player | |
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This program develops it's famous and quotable title
to make a clear connection between life in the real world that young
adults and Senior students will now face and life in the vast
imaginative world acted out on Shakespeare's Globe stage. Whereas
the current program [2006] involves arguments between Romeo
and Macbeth as to which of them, the youth or the older man, knows
best about Shakespeare's main preoccupation, the nature of our
shared human LIFE. All of his central characters have much to say on
the subject in their respective plays, and in WALKING SHADOW
the participants in the vigorous argument about whose experience
best validates their point of view will be Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet,
Gratiano, Beatrice, Desdemona, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth of course the
central characters from the plays you indicate as your students'
studies will be given the most stage time for their argued out
points of view. Thus the hour-long program, WALKING SHADOW, will connect very clearly with whichever of Shakespeare's plays your students will be studying. Please indicate the plays of your choice when booking as your students' study plays will be central in the Grin & Tonic characters' arguments about what LIFE means. The characters will all argue energetically and use their scenes and their experiences in their plays as demonstration and evidence for their acted-out points of view. How the Troupe of three gifted Grin & Tonic actors will undertake all the roles is a problem whose resolution we have already guessed at but which will be refined only in our every detailed rehearsals early next year. So far now we can only hint that it will be a creative and entertaining answer! Please let us know your STUDY PLAYS for 11 & 12 in the appropriate space on the Booking Form, or by phone, as we will be giving special focus to those plays' characters for your school's Grin & Tonic day.
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| Shakespeare at his most appealing, and Grin & Tonic’s youthful actors bring his text to vibrant life.... | |
| Juniors ... the very nearly COMPLETE WORKS of Wm Shakespeare |
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| This new program is a very light hearted introduction to Shakespeare, designed to give the Junior level students a delightful first taste, particularly as comic first taste, with selections chosen from most of the 'complete works'. There'll be famous lines, comic scenes, familiar quotes, charismatic characters, heroes and clowns, all woven into a program whose purpose is first of all to provide a fine hour's live-theatre entertainment and to shatter the "Shakespeare is not for me" barrier, and secondly to prepare the students for deeper studies in Years 11 & 12. Also, and unrelated to any syllabus requirement, this Grin & Tonic introductory Shakespeare program, COMPLETE WORKS, will give the students a potentially lifelong understanding that his work is something rich and engaging. They'll get at least a brief touch of all his main plays! | |
In addition - there will be a real variety of adventurous theatre techniques involving use of masks, hand puppets, 'hats', gymnastic action, etc., even a little ventriloquism and tap-dancing! It will be a happy hour and will lead the students forward!
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